Ronald Blythe
British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s
novelist
Roberto Bolano
Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, socialist, and social theorist
Alison Bechdel
American cartoonist
Samuel Beckett
Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor
Jane Austen
English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century
Natalie Babbitt
American writer and illustrator of children’s books
Beryl Bainbridge
English writer from Liverpool